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The military court extended the detention of Ahed Tamimi (16 years, from the village of Nabi Saleh) until the end of her trial by the criminals of the occupation. The judge said Tamimi’s actions “testify that she is not at all afraid of the security forces, and that she despises them…” and then claimed that she “exceeded the limits of legitimate resistance.” It seems that the judge came from a planet where the occupation is revered, and the occupation authority determines the legitimacy of the resistance. We salute Ahed in her detention for resisting the occupation, and for exposing the hollow vanity of her torturers.

Ahed Tamimi was born under the occupation and grew to rebel against it. The Israeli occupation forces stormed her family house at night to arrest her. As her mother, Nariman Tamimi, arrived at the police station to support her daughter, they arrested her also.

Despite the fact that their arrest received such publicity, it is not at all exceptional. Arbitrary arrests, which affect even minors, as a tool of repression and intimidation, are a common practice of the occupation. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been arrested, 6742 of them in 2017 alone. These days more than 7,000 Palestinian languish in the occupation’s prisons, including more than 400 minors; 58 of them Palestinian women, including 10 minors.

There is a new initiative for activists from various movements and parties in Haifa to initiate solidarity action with Ahed and Nariman Tamimi and with all Palestinian prisoners.

We call on all those who believe that the real crime is occupation and not resistance to join us and demonstrate on Saturday 27/1/2018 at 18:00 in the of Basel Al-A’araj junction, where Allenby Street meets the German Colony, in Haifa.

The Palestinian poet Dareen Tatour, an Israeli citizen, who is accused of “dangerous incitement”, has been incarcerated for over 18 months now. The flimsy evidence is a poem she wrote, translated incorrectly by a police officer, and a Facebook post quoting another Facebook post.

Legal costs are way beyond her family’s means. (They already paid for a year of unsuccessful litigation.) It is up to us, people alarmed and disgusted with the targeting and bullying of open-minded writers and political activists, to offer our support.

We must start an efficient fund raising effort to block the silencing of Dareen. A long and costly legal battle is expected. Unfortunately, in view of the ridiculously manufactured accusations, we cannot foresee a logical end to this absurd trial in the magistrate court with a clear-cut and just acquittal for Dareen. Israeli judges are no heroes. The government and Israel’s fanatic Jewish nationalistic public opinion constantly bully them. However, we must see this battle through the higher courts. Dareen Tatour’s voice, and ours, must be heard.

A protest tour from Kochav Hashahar settlement to the Baladim outpost calling for the dismantling of the settlements and outposts that are displacing the residents of the Jordan Valley from their lands.

Very proud of two of our activists
Today is the second day of an international training on- social change, gender equality and feminist tools for change which they built, and
are facilitating. participants are very diverse and come from- Germany, Nepal, Sri Lanka and more

This workshop is also a part of the partnership between Coalition of women for peace, and the great German organization – Kurve Wustrow

We are happy to assist, to partake in thinking circles and discussions, answer questions, meet with groups and organizations that wish to examine their own processes, conduct gender sensitivity trainings and workshops. We have already done this type of work with organizations in Israel and in Europe, and we would love to keep going with it

Feel free to contact us via facebook or mail- cwp@coalitionofwomen.org

On International Women’s Day 2014 we, feminist activists against the occupation, choose to stand as close as we can to the
northern-most neighborhood in Gaza Strip.

More than a million and a half women and men are living on the other side of the fence, though the Israeli public is completely oblivious to their existence. The daily ordeals, life and experiences of women under siege are hidden from our eyes by walls of concrete, fences and silence.

On International Women’s Day we stand in solidarity with the struggles of women in Israel., Palestine and all over the world who live under oppression .

This year we chose on this day to come and stand here by Gaza, where hundreds of thousands of women are besieged, living in extreme conditions, experiencing water shortage, lack of medical and educational services, limited freedom of movement and poverty.

Let’s open our eyes and look beyond the walls, call for an end of the siege, and an end to the navel and aerial blockade on the Gaza Strip, for life, freedom and dignity